STAT

The U.S. needs to revitalize research on the health effects of low-dose radiation

People are exposed to low-dose radiation in many ways: having a CT scan, working as a medical technician or in a nuclear power plant, or living in an area contaminated by radiation. The health effects ...
SpaceNews

Report: NASA Should Update Astronaut Radiation Exposure Limits

To protect astronauts from cancer-causing radiation in space, NASA should proceed with proposals to set a universal career-long radiation dose limit of ~600 millisieverts (mSv), says a new report from ...
Mena FN

Radiation Dose Management Market Set For Strategic Growth, New Report Offers Critical Insights And Competitive Advantage Astute Analytica

(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) The radiation dose management (RDM) market is undergoing a period of significant expansion, fueled by multiple converging factors. A primary driver is the escalating ...
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Colorectal-Specific Radiation Dose and Chemotherapy Risk for Subsequent Colorectal Malignancies in Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) Report

Novel and valuable to pediatric radiation oncology is our finding that colorectum SMN risk increases when the colorectum receives high mean radiation therapy doses ≥10 Gy and when ≥20% of the volume ...
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Cardiac Substructure Radiation Dose and Risk of Late Cardiac Disease in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Report From the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

Pembrolizumab Plus Olaparib for Patients With Previously Treated and Biomarker-Unselected Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: The Randomized, Open-Label, Phase III KEYLYNK-010 Trial The ...
NPR

Study highlights cancer risk from millions of CT scans performed annually

CT scans diagnose afflictions from tumors to kidney stones to life-threatening diseases and injuries, such as aneurysms and blood clots leading to stroke. But the radiation emitted by this essential ...